Fighting for Choice.

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This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in the first-year Writing and Rhetoric classes, Integrated Learning Environments, and Thinking Matters programs. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style. In this essay, Vienna Kuhn discusses the vast implications that prenatal testing for Down syndrome has had in recent years, as well as the oftentimes flawed and biased ways doctors explain prenatal test results.

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Date created 2017

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Author Kuhn, Vienna G.
Advisor Felt, Lindsey

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Subject Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Subject Down syndrome
Subject prenatal testing
Subject disability
Genre Article

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Kuhn, Vienna G. and Felt, Lindsey. (2017). Fighting for Choice. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/xk829hq9256

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